Main Tasks of the Department: 

• organization, development and methodicalguidance of the state system of meteorological and agrometeorological observations;

• issue of public meteorological forecasts (agrometeorological, climatic) and warnings about dangerous weather phenomena that are regularly disseminated to the central and local public authorities, mass media; tprovision of economic agents with specific information about unfavourable weather phenomena on a contract basic according to the scheme coordinated by the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources;

• issue of specific forecasts for economic agents in terms of contract;  

• control over use of hydrometeorological information by economic agents;

• delivery of specific information about hazard occurrence and intensity to juridical and natural persons as requested;

• systematic analysis, synthesis of meteorological and agrometeorological conditions;

• preparation and publication of informative material and systematic delivery of information to the local and central public authorities, economic agents and population.

      Meteorology Department includes the following centers:

• Meteorology and Climatology Center;

• Meteorological Forecast Centre;

• Agrometeorological Monitoring Center;

• Information Management Center;

• National Meteorological Observations Network.